Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate to admin API as low-privilege user
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ExploitEnumerate/guess object identifiers
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ExecutionSend direct request to protected endpoint
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ImpactReceive unauthorized object data (disclosure)
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Direct request prevention
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an authenticated session to the Kentico Xperience 13 administration API with at least low-privilege access (CVSS PR:L), and an affected version prior to 13.0.216. The specific condition is that the administration API endpoints perform no object-level (per-object) authorization check, so any authenticated admin user can request objects owned by or scoped to other users. Limiting factors: valid administration credentials are mandatory (no anonymous/unauthenticated path per PR:L), the impact is confined to information disclosure (C:L, I:N, A:N - no data modification or availability effect), and installations patched to 13.0.216 or later are not affected. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity, low-real-risk issue by current signals. The provided CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, base 4.3) indicates a network-reachable but privilege-requiring (PR:L) flaw with confidentiality-only impact (C:L, I:N, A:N) - consistent with a broken object-level authorization (BOLA/IDOR-style) weakness, CWE-425, that lets an already-authenticated low-privilege administration user read objects they should not. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no POC are present in the input, so there is no evidence of active or probable exploitation. The main mitigating factor is PR:L: an attacker must already hold valid (if low-privilege) credentials to the administration API, which limits this to insider or post-compromise scenarios rather than mass internet-facing exploitation. Note the KEV/EPSS/POC fields are simply absent rather than conflicting, so no signals contradict each other; the picture is internally consistent - a genuine but low-urgency authorization gap. Patch availability from the vendor makes remediation straightforward and argues for routine, not emergency, prioritization. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A low-privilege authenticated user of the Kentico Xperience 13 administration interface sends direct requests to administration API endpoints referencing object identifiers belonging to other users or sections. Because object-level authorization checks are missing, the endpoint returns data the user is not authorized to view, resulting in disclosure of sensitive administrative information. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and the network attack vector with low complexity makes the requests trivial to craft once credentials are held. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 02, 2026
Information disclosure in the Kentico Xperience 13 administration API (all releases before 13.0.216) allows any authenticated administrator to read objects that belong to, or are scoped to, other users because the API endpoints perform no per-object authorization check. The issue is rated only CVSS 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N), meaning a valid low-privilege admin session is mandatory and the impact is confined to reading data - there is no modification, deletion, or availability effect and no anonymous exploitation path. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vendor has released hotfix 13.0.216.
RemediationAI
Apply the vendor-released hotfix: upgrade Kentico Xperience 13 to version 13.0.216 or later, available from https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes, and verify the deployed version after upgrading since the fix is a version-bound hotfix rather than a separate security product. If the hotfix cannot be applied immediately, the practical compensating controls are to restrict network access to the administration API endpoints (for example by placing the admin interface behind a VPN, IP allowlist, or reverse-proxy rule) - with the trade-off that remote or third-party admin clients and integrations will lose connectivity until the restriction is lifted - and to reduce the number of accounts holding administrative API access so the set of principals able to enumerate other users' objects is as small as possible. Logging and monitoring of admin API calls for unusual object-identifier enumeration can help detect abuse, but it does not prevent it, and 13.0.216 remains the only complete fix given that the vulnerable code path lacks the authorization check entirely.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause is CWE-425 (Direct Request, commonly described as 'forced browsing'), which in this case manifests as a missing object-level authorization check on Kentico Xperience 13 administration API endpoints: the API validates that the caller is an authenticated administrator but never verifies that the caller is permitted to access the specific object being requested. This is the classic broken-object-level-authorization pattern (often referred to as IDOR), where object identifiers supplied by an authenticated user are honored without an ownership or scope check, so one administrator can retrieve records belonging to or scoped to another administrator. Kentico Xperience 13 is the .NET-based digital experience platform (CMS) covered by the wildcarded CPE cpe:2.3:a:kentico:xperience:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, i.e. the version-less CPE confirms the product stream rather than a single frozen build, which is why the affected set must be determined by version comparison against the 13.0.216 fix boundary. Because the flaw is purely an authorization gap on read operations, exploitation yields only information exposure (C:L) with no integrity or availability impact, and the CVSS vector's PR:L confirms that authentication with at least low privileges is a hard prerequisite.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Network-reachable admin API with low complexity but requiring a low-privilege authenticated account (PR:L); missing object-level checks expose data only, so C:L and I:N/A:N.
Primary rating from Vendor (mitre).
CVSS VectorVendor: mitre
DescriptionCVE.org
Kentico Xperience 13 before 13.0.216 lacks object-level authorization checks for administration API endpoints.
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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